Matt Cervantes

Managing Director, Healthy Youth Development 
Sierra Health Foundation

Albert Maldonado

Program Officer
California Endowment

Patrice Cromwell

Steering Committee Chair
Vice President, Center for Economic Opportunity
Annie E. Casey Foundation

Amy Price

Program Executive
Zellerbach Family Foundation

Tonyel Edwards

Steering Committee Chair
Partner

Bridgespan Group

Diane Sierpina

Director of Justice Initiatives
The Tow Foundation

Sandra Gasca-Gonzalez

Vice President for the Center for Effective Family Services and Systems
Annie E. Casey Foundation

Casey Trupin

Director, Youth Homeless
Raikes Foundation

Lyman Legters

Senior Director
Casey Family Programs

Roy Williams

Senior Program Officer
Greater New Orleans Foundation

Barbara Langford

YTFG Director

Langford is a founder of Mainspring Consulting, a firm that works with foundation and public sector leaders to design initiatives for children, youth and families, leverage resources in support of their goals, and develop effective plans to move from good thinking to action. Barbara regularly works with funder affinity groups, technical assistance collaboratives, state networks and local coalitions to help leaders identify shared goals, strategically develop plans to leverage resources and act collectively. Barbara is a seasoned facilitator with experience designing and supporting effective planning processes focused on organizational development, strategic financing, and sustainability. Barbara is the former Vice President for Tools, Technical Assistance and Training at The Finance Project, and has held positions at Families USA, the Massachusetts State Women’s Commission, and the US Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

Dianna Walters-Hartley

YTFG Communications Manager
Dianna Walters-Hartley serves as the Communications Manager for YTFG, overseeing all of the communication strategies for the network. Dianna is a recognized expert in shaping national and state policy, an experienced author and a skilled educator. Content areas in which Dianna has extensive expertise include child welfare policy, positive youth development, trauma recovery, adolescent brain development, adolescent health, youth in transition and foster care and adoption. She has successfully managed major grant-funded policy and research projects and served as a national, state and local spokesperson.

Jennifer Miller

Foster Care Work Group Lead Consultant
Jennifer Miller is a social worker, child advocate and founding partner of ChildFocus. Previously, Jennifer was a strategic consultant with Cornerstone Consulting Group where she led its child welfare policy and practice work in the areas of kinship care, workforce development and permanency planning. Jennifer has also worked on a broad range of issues at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, including developing their federal human services policy agenda. Jennifer began her human services career at the American Public Welfare Association (APWA), now the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), where she developed and analyzed federal legislation and regulations on child welfare issues and served as project manager for the National Association of Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA).

Stephanie Malia Krauss

Economic Well-Being Work Group Lead Consultant

Stephanie Krauss is the Lead Consultant for the Economic Well-Being Work and a senior director at JFF. In these roles, she helps leaders design solutions that improve the economic well-being of young people and families—especially those living in poverty. She works with national, state and local changemakers to make sure everyone has the chance to experience quality learning and work opportunities and livable lives. Previously, as a senior fellow with the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, the Forum for Youth Investment, and JFF, she focused on youth readiness and well-being, credentialing, competency-based education, and opportunity youth. She was also campaign director of Connecting Credentials and co-director of The Readiness Project. Stephanie also founded and led Shearwater Education Foundation, and the first competency-based high school for disconnected youth in St. Louis. She started her career as an elementary school teacher and soccer coach in Phoenix, Arizona. Stephanie is the author of Making It: What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World. 

Carrie Rae Boatman

Youth Justice Work Group Lead Consultant

Carrie Rae Boatman is the Lead Consultant for the Youth Justice Work Group. Carrie Rae’s background combines experience in philanthropy, nonprofit management, direct service and advocacy with a focus on social justice issues, including over seven years in the juvenile and criminal justice field. Previously, Carrie Rae served as the Senior Policy Associate for Juvenile Justice Reform at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Rockit Fund, a 501(c)4 social welfare organization that provided financial and technical support to nonprofits working to effect policy reform in the fields of criminal justice, juvenile justice and electoral systems. She has also served as a grant making consultant to Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations.